A week ago st the Summer Diseases Hospital in Tientsin Road) where a large proportion of the Patients have been suffering from: cholera since the epidemic in Shanghai, it would have been impossible to pay a visit to the transfust room wherein saline solution. being injected into the pitiable suf-forers from cholera without. seeing: the rows of cots filled with patients, As a proof, however, that the past few days have witnessed a slight upward rise for the better in the cholera situation, it was possible for a representative of "The North~ China Daily News" to see an empty transfusion room in this institution and to be told by the doctor in charge that the situation is showing marked signs of improvement. Information gathered at the Intentious Diseases Hospital for Chinese in Thibet Road offered ad-Jditional hopes that the situation is beginning to clear, although a large percentage of patients admitted both institutions show symptoms of cholera.
In the Summer Disoase Hospital patient who is brought to the hospital with the violent nausea and: pains which accompany cholera ix eiven the transfusion treatment most immediately. A chart made out for him' on which the large letter "I" is printed in red ink showing the time of transfusion, the resulting conditions as regard temperature, pulse and general symptoms which the treatment feauses. In most cases it is inter-festing to note that patients in the beginning stages of cholera. suffer with abnormal bodily. temperature and the chart line takes Jan immediate jump mal as goon ay the t fare retarded returns to normal gradually At the hospitals yesterday the fight which is being put up by the: doctors and nurses of the institu tions was clourly to be seen. Worl ing under great odds, with patient ming for treatment when the use fs far advanced, the hospital staff are to be commended for their fight era inst the dread summer Improvement by Figures The Thibet Road Hospital which treats both table shows cholera patients for the first week in August.
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In order thay they might not die before being condemned, orders have been given that convicts in Chinese gaols are to be given auticholera injections ay once.
Tue local _gods are extremely unobligine, For more than six: days the Chinese magistrate of Shanghai under the leadership of Mr, Wai Tao-fung have been pray-jog (0 them hard for vain. No ala has fallen.
For six days the settle has been furs hi jen and still no rain has fallen. 'Monks of all have pressed and es have been made, but all in vain. 'The merchants' of the Chinese city are now straining 2 enter the fray, on their own account. If this Detition is granted, that will make rine days of continuous prayer to he gods If they carry on long enough. it seems to us that their prayer will be bound to get an 21 wer. Let us, hope it will not come the form of a: tidal wave "or something equally unpleasant.
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